neal stephenson – anathem
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
February 25, 2009
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 9, 2009
sakhalin arctic pirate lighthouse
In my long search for the perfect lighthouse to wage piracy from, I’ve stumbled across a chain of Soviet era …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp.
What remains, …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist
iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 3, 2008
subatomic particle plushies
Oh I want these. Really, really, really…
Julie Peasley makes particle plushies at the Particle Zoo. Quarks, Leptons, Theoretical particles like …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today.
juedisches museum berlin – 1
juedisches museum berlin – 2
juedisches museum …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
May 26, 2008
phoenix
Sometimes I get really deliriously happy about humans and what we occasionally do.
Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic this morning …
May 10, 2008
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
April 20, 2008
Reading: Sidney Perkowitz – Universal Foam: The Story of Bubbles from Cappuccino to the Cosmos
sydney perkowitz – universal foam
April 1, 2008
sid eats mouse
Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I’ve never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to …
March 21, 2008
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 14, 2008
end … begin
Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A …
March 4, 2008
avalanche!
On Mars!
Quite the most spectacular photograph I’ve seen this year.
Look out below!
HiRISE caught an avalanche in action! http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007338_2640
It was so …
March 3, 2008
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
February 25, 2008
MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …
A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the …
February 20, 2008
monadologie day 40, 41 & 42
Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on.
A peculiar week. I haven’t been too intent on planning …
February 17, 2008
monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 14, 2008
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie.
“In so far as the concatenation of …
February 13, 2008
monadologie day 36
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this…
I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New Black …
February 12, 2008
monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness.
And now another …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy.
I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on my …
January 29, 2008
monadologie day 25 & 26
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 25, 2008
monadologie day 23 & 24
I’m losing track of what day is where…
We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material from …
January 22, 2008
monadologie day (21 &) 22
Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not.
A little video. 45 seconds …
January 17, 2008
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 16, 2008
monadologie day 18 & 19
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
January 12, 2008
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 9, 2008
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
December 21, 2007
monadologie – week 2
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …
December 14, 2007
monadologie days 4 & 5
I’ve been reading Leibniz’s 1714 text Monadologie again. It’s sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral …
December 12, 2007
monadologie days 1, 2, & 3
I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It’s half way to the first floor (or second if you’re counting …
December 12, 2007
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
December 8, 2007
a small break and things…
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of …
November 29, 2007
AIR
While I’m about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
August 28, 2007
a swollen bloody orb
Everyone seems to know! How excellent! Science! Astronomy! Eclipses! Shame Adelaide has decided to pull a murky layer of cloud …
June 26, 2007
i want more life, fucker!
Bladerunner is about the most influential film for me, I’ve seen in more times than I can recall, usually once …
June 19, 2007
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
April 6, 2007
friday atheist re-blogging
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …
April 1, 2007
sunday morning avoiding-work blogging
More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …
March 3, 2007
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
February 24, 2007
i whore for astrophysics
One of my dream residencies would be the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, all kinds of Robert-Scott-I-am-just-going-outside-and-may-be-some-time excitement. Sadly my tranny …
February 11, 2007
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 1, 2007
I also wanted to include mermaids and shipwrecks …
Continuing my current science bender, a piece of reblogging from Barista on Marie Tharp, Cartographer, scientist, one of those people …
December 23, 2006
seasons greetings
A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the …
December 12, 2006
smashing small thing together really fast
Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I’ve been blogging so much about …
December 7, 2006
water flowed on Mars within last seven years
Continuing on from yesterday’s quotes from HAL as post titles, I was giddy with anticipation about NASA’s Mars announcement today, …
December 6, 2006
I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it…
Who woulda thought NASA would suddenly come over all media-savvy and blip out not one but two press releases in …
December 2, 2006
some stuff i read this week
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …
October 21, 2006
what i’ve been reading today
Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes …
October 21, 2006
cyanoacrylate – a dancer’s friend
Like pretty much every dancer I have ever known, in various forms I get split toes. Lately it’s been a …
October 21, 2006
faith is a corrosive virus
A couple of days ago I was reading an article in which the manifestations of – especially fundamentalist – religion …
October 16, 2006
a nature hike through the book of revelations
Sunday morning I arrived in Melbourne after three weeks in Adelaide, my fifth domestic flight since June and one of …
October 5, 2006
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …
September 24, 2006
Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has …
September 3, 2006
temperance – monster curves
When I was a student at VCA, I somehow blagged a copy of William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies which was largely …
August 18, 2006
广州有毒液体泄 – Guangzhou liquid inferno
There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The …
August 4, 2006
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
July 14, 2006
we are the robot ballet army
Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral …
July 14, 2006
eeeee!!!!! charles stross in melbourne
I’m still waiting to buy Charles Stross’ latest novel, and to fill the interim bought one of Neal Stephenson’s first …
July 9, 2006
charles stross – glasshouse
Before I lost most of this year to reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, which I am currently re-reading for various …
June 26, 2006
cryptozoology
A while ago I was sophistically explaining how my performances are what I decided to call crypto-ethnochoreography, in which the …
June 23, 2006
we intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems…
Before threw away a prosperous career as a writer and immanent tenure track in philosophy (post-modern, even) for the joy …
June 17, 2006
guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself …
April 29, 2006
shemale realdolls put me out of a job
I’ve had a couple of enlightening moments in the beautiful, weird, endlessly diverse world of sex and desire in the …
April 28, 2006
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 17, 2006
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
March 30, 2006
more robots rendering contemporary dance irrelevant
Before I decided the future of contemporary dance lay in aberrant ethnochoreography, and ransacked Cantonese Opera for ideas, I spent …
March 30, 2006
bird flu
I’ve had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and …
March 26, 2006
陈莉莉 chen lili – the face of plastic surgery
Someone said to me, “lesbians are so 90s; trannys are where it’s at now”, and I thought, “eeeee!!! once again …
February 24, 2006
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
February 15, 2006
freaked out light hating slime mould robot
I just thought, “wouldn’t it be cool to get a bunch of these slime mould robots that can’t handle the …
February 12, 2006
anna tenta & copernicus
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …
January 3, 2006
hacking matter
One of my highlights from 2005, and amongst my greatest enduring pleasures was a voracious consuming of a tower of …
November 19, 2005
splat …
Fat snotty lumps of snow pushed down the river from the breeze as it coiled over the hills above Zürich, …
November 4, 2005
the satanic orgy of meat
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after …
October 16, 2005
china’s changing landscape
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …
October 2, 2005
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
July 4, 2005
siwic day 3 – quantum physics & synchronised swimming
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics …
January 31, 2005
guangdong #1
The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries …
January 28, 2005
more chinese sci-fi
Two new Chinese science-fiction magazines have appeared on the market in China. As all the names have ‘fantasy’ and ’science …
January 15, 2005
a new world
Huygens probe safely touched down on Titan today. These are the first pictures back from the surface of the moon …
November 23, 2004
firefox – i’ll make it easy for you
Every so often, I check the statistics for my site, who’s reading what, where they come from, and also what …
November 16, 2004
shit place for a swim
The Three Gorges dam is nothing much more than a giant toilet, slowing to a grinding halt the flow of …
November 9, 2004
tremors
I was lying in bed last night reading my Chinese word frequency dictionary (I need to go to a bookstore …